A Norwegian ambassador has resigned over her association with Jeffrey Epstein in another political casualty from the latest file release.
Epstein reportedly left the children of Mona Juul $10m (£7.3 m) in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019.
The 66-year-old, who was Norway’s ambassador to Jordan, resigned last night after being suspended last week.
Juul’s contact with Epstein showed a “serious lapse in judgment” and an investigation into the matter would continue, foreign minister Espen Barth Eide said.
Juul told the NTB Norwegian news agency it had been “imprecise” to describe her contact with Epstein as minimal, but that the contact originated in her husband’s relationship with Epstein and she had no independent social or professional relationship with him.
The contact had been sporadic and private and not part of her official government duties, she said.
